A pensioner has accused his Asian local councillor of bullying him by accusing him of Islamophobia, after he and a number of other residents raised concerns over a sizeable mosque to be built on local greenbelt land.

Government ministers are considering a raft of measures to crack down on hate preaching in the wake of the jailing of Anjem Choudary, who was allowed to promote Sharia in the UK for two decades. Questions have been raised over

Police are hunting down two men and a woman who threw bacon sandwiches at a large mosque in Bristol. Authorities are treating the incident as a hate crime, and witnesses said the suspects may have also left bacon outside the mosque and

The first Muslim woman to serve as a British government minister, Baroness Warsi, has called for mosques in the UK to be built without minarets to help develop a “distinctly British brand” of Islam. She argued that there was no reason